An Albuquerque councilor is proposing a new law that would allow police to investigate all online threats made against schools and public places faster.

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The bill, which is sponsored by Councilor Pat Davis, will be introduced at Wednesday's City Council meeting.

It's no secret that public places and schools are receiving more and more violent threats through social media.

Right now in New Mexico, if someone makes a bomb threat via social media (or in any other form) to a school or a public place, officers could get a warrant and investigate the social media account the threat came from.

But if someone threatened any other violent act via social media, like a shooting, an officer's hands would be tied.

"A generic threat to just scare a school or to just come and shoot up a school--isn't necessarily against the law right now," Davis said.

Currently, no state laws prohibit making a violent threat to a school or a public place, other than a bomb threat.

A number of school resource officers have reached out to Davis regarding this issue, saying that it's difficult to obtain a warrant to investigate a social media account when someone makes a threat about a shooting or any other violent act that doesn't involve a bomb.

Prosecutors in Bernalillo County confirmed the loophole.

"Most of our laws were written in the '70s and '80s when school shootings just weren't a fact of life then," Davis said.

Davis says that officers can use federal laws to try and obtain a warrant, but added that getting help from a federal agency could take hours when a violent threat to a school should be handled much more quickly.

Davis' ordinance would make any violent threat against a school or a public place illegal in Albuquerque.

He says it would give officers the teeth to get to the bottom of a potentially dangerous situation.

"When our officers are stepping up and saying they need this to do their job and to keep kids safe, this is no brainer," Davis said.

If the ordinance is passed by city councilors and the mayor, the penalty for making a threat to a school or public place that doesn't involve a bomb would be 90 days in jail or a $500 fine.